Creating this song wasn’t hard. The most time-consuming thing was figuring out
what song I wanted to choose that I thought would sound best when repeated right
after itself. The song is The Parting Glass by Ed Sheeran. It’s a cover he does
love in old Irish traditional song.
Have you ever sung a canon with yourself?
This is possible with a record of you singing the canon once. Afterwards you have to listen to yourself and to start the next recording when the next voice comes in.
It is possible to cheat by recording the canon only once and copying it, but this is no fun and you may have difficulties to synchronise the parts.
For my recording I’ve chosen a canon which looks easy but is tricky, still, it has the nice effect to really achieve a multi-layered sound of voices.
The piece is in German, but below the notes I present a translation.
A possible course is:
- plug in microphone and headphones
- start software
- start the recording of the canon according to your software’s ways
- go back to the start of your recording
- add/ go to new track (if necessary; in Audacity a new track is automatically added)
and hit record
- start singing when the next part comes in
You can repeat this.
When I was a child and during my time at university I always was part of a choir and the above round is often sung in German choirs. For me this is a world far in the past. I still love listening to a polyphony if voices but can hardly imagine being in a choir with all the pink ideal world people around me. Still, the music they are producing is nice.
This post is inspired by the ds106 assignment idea Row Row Polyphony.
here you can find the sources of the notes and the translation:
notes:
http://www.lieder-archiv.de/froh_zu_sein_bedarf_es_wenig-notenblatt_100155.html
translation:
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2669&c=38
For this assignment (assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ro…row-polyphony/) I was to make a polyphony of a song. That just means, play a song and then time it right so that another group(or start playing the song again) starts over to they interlap.
I think this actually ended up really cool. I picked a christmas song, because I mean, who doesnt like christmas music, and I felt like this would be a good song to do this too. I edited this in audacity and I think I was able to get most of the mouse clicking out this time!
This assignment was worth 3.5 Stars
“I am a poor man,
I have nothing,
I want for nothing.”
I first encountered this wonderful round during my B.Ed. year at Queens University, Kingston. As part of the Outdoor and Experiential Education course taught by James Raffan, we met once a week for a five hour experience — rock climbing, historical walk, a night hike, a campfire, a tour of a retired Canadian naval icebreaker. Each week a different group was responsible for preparing a meal appropriate to that week’s theme — we shared the food partway through the evening. Such a great part of a wonderful class.
I have fond memories of the “campfire” evening, which actually took place in a classroom at the Faculty of Education building — but which culminated in an after-class sing-along in a wonderfully acoustic stairwell that James led us to. I illustrated the simple lyrics in my journal (James Raffan and journalling — that’s another story), along with a picture of a drinking straw bagpipe that I played as we did Amazing Grace.
Experiential learning, to be sure.
Audio Assignment 1027 Row Row Polyphony for audio week.
Organ created using GarageBand, a couple of G’s played through.
Vocal was sung through once, then duplicated twice and offset by two bars each time to create the 3-part round.
Font is Herculanum.
Paper texture by akinna-stock
I wanted to try my hand at making a polyphony. I love music and am pretty much listening to some kind of music all the time (like right now). I spend a good amount of time finding music online and of course I stumbled upon these two right as they became huge viral stars. I decided to make a polyphony of Lennon and Maisy Stella’s Call Your Girlfriend. I used the website http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ to download an mp3 of the video. I then added the audio file twice into Garageband as two separate layers. Instead of just a simple offset I spent some time trying to get the best possible offset. I ended up using about 2.8 seconds of offset because it seemed to be about 2 beats. I then reduced the sound level of the offset layer slightly in order to prevent everything from sounding like one big recording. In the beginning and end they slightly adjust their tempo and it throws the sound off a little, but for the majority of the recording I matched the tempo and beats up.
Stars: 3.5 Audio
My version of Old MacDonald had a farm….
http://amcandre.com/audio-assignments/audio-assignments-row-row-polyphony-3-5-stars/
An imitative polyphony can best be described as when you were younger in music class and the teacher would have one side of the class start singing “row row row your boat” and then part way through the song have the other half of the class start singing from the beginning. It is basically two similar melodies sung at the same time, but at different points.
Link to Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/row-row-polyphony/
This is my version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm…
An imitative polyphony can best be described as when you were younger in music class and the teacher would have one side of the class start singing “row row row your boat” and then part way through the song have the other half of the class start singing from the beginning. It is basically two similar melodies sung at the same time, but at different points.
